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The R. U. Sirius predictions for the short-term future

They’re pretty good

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Neuro, cyber, slaughter: Emerging technological threats in 2017

*Oh come on, it’s New Year’s Eve, you KNOW you want to put down that champagne bottle and anguish over this instead. HapPy NeW YeAr,...

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Science fiction writers discussing science fiction in NATURE magazine

*That’s rather interesting. They should be in a theme anthology, or something

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Bollywood in 2017

*That’s pretty much all you need to know. That’s a wrap, basically. Actually it’s MORE than you need to know, but it’s a gossipy industry...

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Dumb hollow mindgarbage

(…) Stop reading what Facebook tells you to read Before Facebook came along and screwed everything up for everyone, people entered URLs into browser bars....

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Musica Globalista: Mayookh, “Jingle Bells Qawwali Remix”

*Dashing through the snow.

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Musica Globalista: Bomba Estereo, “Quimica”

*When you’re from Colombia, it’s kind of awesome that you can “feature” Balkan Beat Box.

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Machine translated German net critique

*Boy, that’s some dense stuff, isn’t it? *But, enough is coming through in Google English that you can glimpse some vast, bubbling, grievance-filled tarpits of...

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Politico Europe’s Winners and Losers of 2017

*Can’t tell next year’s power players without a scorecard. Movers and shakers

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